Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "NBC News" channel.

Democrats in 2020: "Free the kids in cages!" Democrats in 2021: "Actually, what are we supposed to do, not keep children in conditions that qualify for animal abuse? They broke the law!"
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@White Horse Tsunami Vaccines are the mark of the beast now? Even though there is literally no number of mark involved? Man, American Christians will never stop seeing the endtimes a'comin, even in the most laughable places lmao
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lol definitely not the person on Joe Rogan, that was easy Talk about an echo chamber
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@jspur22 Because it's a person on Joe Rogan vs an entire planet's worth of leading scientists. This person does not have a magic bullet of data that pantses the entire scientific community which they're deigning to reveal to the world via Joe Rogan. It's frankly absurd. You would have to be merely picking your preferred answer to land on the shock jock's guest over such a mountain of counter-evidence
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Everyone knows it's survivable for most. The masks and vaccines are for the vulnerable. There's a reason there's such an overlap between "Might Makes Right" types and and anti-vaxxers
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Travy Bear Spam the same unhinged nonsense more lol
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@Tory "lefty cult leaders" hah, the irony. They clearly do work, boneheads are just pretending they were promised a cure when they weren't. Flu and Cold vaccines have always worked this way
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@dwarvenjesus4266 lol well, if he said that, I stand corrected, Joe Biden is a definite bonehead and huckster. The second part is founded in some truth of course―those with the vaccine demonstrably endure lesser symptoms when they come down with it. But this sort of statement is outrageously absurd, it's something pharmaceutical companies would never claim themselves for obvious and legal reasons. I don't listen to that guy and I never heard that myself. The impression I was always under is that it's a flu vaccine, and like flu vaccines, they're going to ask you to take them annually―they aren't polio vaccines that permanently cure polio, and that's not the vaccine's fault so much as it is the nature of the cold and flu virus vs that of the polio virus
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@guinessbeer It's "unnatural" to inject one, but it's also unnatural to drink rum or to eat bread, too. Something being unnatural is not the same as it being intrinsically unhealthy. Also, as far as vaccines go, multiple injections in the first year is in fact very common
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@richardhorn7688 Trump literally encouraged getting the vaccine. This is a tragically tribal reply. Listening to Joe Rogan does not make anyone more informed than the scientific community. I sympathize with a distrust of authority, but this anti-intellectualism has led otherwise sane people to act completely mad. It's Flat-Earther sorts of nonsense to insist you've found some greater truth so easily that somehow so many people have failed to discover―you vastly underestimate the scientific method while vastly overestimating your own methods
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Travy Bear wow great counter-argument, left wing destroyed, Joe Rogan's guests now know more than an entire planet of scientists
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@biancazombie3054 Social media is not the vehicle for peer review, nor should it be. I have seen disagreements amongst doctors and researchers about efficacy rates, but never have I seen it suggested that the vaccines are known to cause any side effects which have not been discussed publicly already (rare heart problems in young males chief among them), or any side effects not commonly associated with flu vaccines
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@biancazombie3054 You can find studies linked all over the place, or they are readily searchable online. I doubt a tweet into the void is the best way to get this information out, but then again, I'm sure there are many tweets with links to peer-reviewed studies as well. Unfortunately, most of social media's "research" is, ah, not peer reviewed, and that gets mixed in the same with legitimate research. In fact, if it gets more traction (as its likely to if it's sensationalist), then that even lends BS science undue credence over legitimate, peer reviewed studies. That's social media's problem with this stuff, and it's why you shouldn't turn there for scientific information in the first place. At any rate, the current consensus about the various vaccines is not something that is being hidden from the people. It is fully accessible to anyone with the ability to read and understand it. Governments will be governments and billionaires will be billionaires, but there is no grand conspiracy being perpetrated by the global scientific community, its motivations are plain and its data is right there for your perusal
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@biancazombie3054 Of course it should, that's always been the case with peer review. Burying the lede is for journalists and politicians, not scientists. But there is a reason why the vast majority of those professionals who have studied for years and who've looked at this particular information have concluded that COVID-19 vaccines are a good idea for most people without conditions that could be exacerbated by them. This is a matter for a doctor and a patient, but all too often doctors have to work against the fears, the prejudice, and the ignorance of their patients just to get them to consider receiving the best treatment for them and their community. There are some people who refuse blood transfusions, for example, who will simply die if their wishes are honored. Tragic as it is, this does indeed happen. But how should doctors respond to people whose wishes might lead to the deaths of others? It is a moral quandary with no clear-cut answer, but typically the doctor-patient relationship breaks down when one or the other becomes a danger to other people, if not to themselves. Anyway, the one thing that I wish the skeptical would realize is that the information is freely available to them, and that they should go straight to the source rather than having it filtered for them by ideologues whose biases match their own, for that is how prejudices are confirmed, not how knowledge is gained
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@jspur22 No, there is no need to disregard them. I haven't even heard an actual scientist saying anything about these vaccines that shocked me, anyway
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